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SHEEP SHEARS.

N0. 354,378. Patented Dec. 14, 1886.

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ROBERT MCCOY BILLS AND ALBERT S. HAMILTON, OF OROVILLE, CAL.

SH EEP-SHEA RS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, %,378, dated December14, 1886.

Application filed February 27, 1886. Serial No. 193.529. (K0 model.)

To all whom if; may concern.-

Be it known that we, ROBERT MoOoY Rum and ALBERT S. HAMILTON. both ofOroville, Butte county, State of California, have invented anImprovement in Sheep-Shears; and we hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the same.

Our invention relates to certain improve ments in sheep-shears.-

It consists in the devices, hereinafter described and claimed, wherebythe blades may be turned so as to present the edges of the blades toeach other at any desired angle.

Figure l is a plan view of a pair of shears. Fig. 2 is a view showingtheinside of one handle with the adjusting-screws. Fig. 3 is atransverse section of one hollow handle with the shank of the blade andadj net ing-screw.

A are the blades of the shears, having semicylindrical shanks B, whichare made to fit loosely inside the hollow extensions of the handles 0.Upon the flat inner sides of these extensions are set screws D, whichpass through, one upon one side and the other upon the opposite side, asshown in Fig. 2. By turning these set-screws so as to move one out andthe other in the shank will be turned and the edges of the blades willbe moved to or from each other, so that they will be set to out to thebest advantage without either cross ing or slipping upon each otherwithout cut ting.

E is the bow, which is connected with the handles or shanks, and F is aspring, which has a similar curve to the how; but it is of smaller size,so that it curves around inside of the bow and is secured, as shown inFig. 1.

Through the center and back part of this spring F a screw, H, passes,the spring being thickened and screw-threaded at that part. The end I ofthe screw turns in a socket or against the back part of the bow E, andadjusts the tension ofthe springs whereby the power to separate theblades is increased or diminished.

Having thus-described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

In sheep-shears, the blades, having the extensions or shanks fitting in.similarly-shaped hollow handles, in combination with adjusting -screwsadapted to press upon opposite edges of the flat sides of the shank,whereby the shanks and blades may be turned so as to present the edgesof the blades to each other at any desired angle, substantially asherein described.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands.

ROBERT MCCOY BILLS. ALBERT S. HAMILTON. lVitnesses:

W. Y. BLIss, JOHN C. GRAY.

